An anonymous studio insider revealed details of the scrapped Pixar animated feature ‘BeFri’ to THR. The girl-powered pic was axed in 2023.#Pixar #BeFrihttps://t.co/T1gGiw2T09
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Pixar was developing a film called “Be Fri” (the reference being half of a “Best Friends” necklace) for a couple of years before scrapping it.
The film was about “two teenage girls who were once besties but find themselves drifting apart after learning that their favorite, Sailor Moon-style TV show is real and that they need to set out on a universe-spanning quest to save humanity”.
A former Pixar staffer claims that “Disney just didn’t feel like little boys could see themselves in the film enough. Basically, Disney reps were like, ‘We can’t have a girl power movie.’”
“The comparisons to KPop Demon Hunters are pretty undeniable because there were musical aspects to it, and it was a rip-roaring time,” the staffer says. “I can imagine that whoever at Disney denied Be Fri to exist looks at KPop and is kicking themselves like, ‘Shit, I can’t believe Netflix is doing exactly what we wanted to do.’”
